Improvement in combined cane and seat



J. W SMITH. Combined Cane and Seat.

No. 208,428. Patented Sept. 24,1878.

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JOSEPH WILLIAM SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CANE AND SEAT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 205,428, dated September 24, 1878; application filed June 30, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WILLIAM SMITH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Combined Cane and Seat, of which the following is a specification:

Three sticks of wood so connected together by a three-armed connection that, when the sticks are brought together, they will form a cane is well known.

My invention consists in such a cane and seat combined, in which the three sticks are so shaped that a chamber is formed between them in the cane adapted to receive the seat, as more fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are two views of my improved cane.

The cane is formed of the three sticks A A A, united by the usual three-armed connector in the usual way, but above the seat there is a chamber, B, to receive the seat 0 when the cane is folded, as shown in Fig. 1. I make this chamber in three parts, each part forming a portion of one of the sticks, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

I prefer to place the knob or head of the cane at the seat end and the ferrule at the other end but this may, of course, be reversed. When the knob is at the seat end it fits over the three parts of the tube and holds them together, as in Fig. 1.

The ferrule is best made of vulcanized rubber, as a metal ferrule is apt to stick if made tapering, and requires some kind of fastening to keep it in place if not made so.

Any strong sheet material will answer for the seat, but in practice I use strong linen.

What I claim as my invention is The combination cane and seat consisting of the sticks A A A and seat 0, the sticks being constructed and arranged to form a receptacle, B, for the seat 0, substantially as described and shown.

J OS. M. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J. E. MAYNADIER, J. E. KNOX. 

